Updated and corrected with info from Transit Police.
Transit Police report a man, about 40, was stabbed "in the torso area" around 5:50 p.m. He was taken to a local hospital and is expected to survive.
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By adamg - 12/18/13 - 4:35 pm
Boston Police report several good Samaritans grabbed the man they saw run after and beat a pregnant woman trying to escape his mugging attempt.
According to police, the woman had just come out of a convenience store in the area of Harrison Avenue and Thorndike Street shortly before 3 p.m. when Bernard Robinson approached and asked her for some money.
By adamg - 12/17/13 - 6:00 pm
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Jason Barbosa, 24, of first-degree murder for the shooting death of a childhood friend who became a mortal enemy when he joined a rival gang, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
The verdict means a mandatory sentence of life without possibility of parole.
The DA's office says Barbosa, as a member of the Woodward Avenue gang in Roxbury, was involved in a long running and violent feued with the Wendover Street gang in Dorchester.
By adamg - 12/12/13 - 10:33 am
Updated with arraignment information.
Sandro Fonseca, 30, was arraigned today on charges he pointed a handgun at neighbors on Forest Street in Roxbury while drunk last night, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Fonseca, a former Marine, was in his Forest Street home with two friends when police arrived - an on-duty officer was injured in a struggle with one of them, the DA's office says.
Roxbury District Court Judge Pamela Dashiell agreed with prosecutors to set bail at $5,000 and to order him to stay away from his neighbors and undergo evaluation for alcoholism.
By adamg - 12/7/13 - 10:10 am
Stanley Staco reports a man was shot around 12:50 a.m., was able to get himself to Boston Medical Center.
By adamg - 12/5/13 - 5:09 pm
Also see: He lunches with the Kennedys and is cheered at a mass rally.
Mandela's speech at Harvard in 1998:
RIP, Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013.
By adamg - 12/4/13 - 7:28 am
You get a delay! And you get a delay! And you get a delay!
Trains lapsed into unconsciousness on the Red Line and the C, D and E trolley lines. But the Orange Line saved the worst for last: A dead train at Ruggles that sat there for nearly 20 minutes before operators got the idea to get the train behind it to push it out of the way a little after 9 a.m.
Anna Lawless was on the pusher train:
After sitting outside Ruggles for 20 mins, we seem to be pushing the disabled train ahead of us.
By adamg - 11/29/13 - 6:50 pm
A queasy citizen posts a photo of three headless chickens just off Washington Street, south of Melnea Cass Boulevard in Roxbury.
The city quickly marked the case closed - chicken carcasses picked up.
By adamg - 11/26/13 - 11:28 pm
Stanley Staco reports that around 8:30 p.m., somebody in a group of men with a gun started firing at police officers on DeWitt Street in Roxbury.
During a chase, one of three suspects was captured; one officer was injured, although not from gunfire. Police set up a perimiter around the high school as they searched for the other two.
By adamg - 11/24/13 - 10:08 am
Stephen Beyer watched the house burn. See it larger.
In addition to the $500,000 in damage done by a fire Friday night, somebody at 10 Wyoming St. in Roxbury is now out up to $1 million for the value of the 176 marijuana plants police found growing inside.
By adamg - 11/23/13 - 4:52 pm
Boston firefighters battling a two-alarm fire at 10 Wyoming St. last night discovered pot plants growing inside. More than 100, WBZ reports.
By adamg - 11/23/13 - 12:41 am
The city of Boston has submitted applications to the FCC for two low-power FM radio stations, one broadcasting municipal information from high atop that round senior-citizens building in Egleston Square, the other a more educational station at East Boston High School.
The FCC's Low Power FM program is aimed at encouraging non-commercial educational broadcasting. Stations that get licenses will be limited to 100 watts - a far cry from the typical commercial station, where power is typically measured in the tens of thousands of watts.
By adamg - 11/18/13 - 1:17 pm
A Brockton man "snuffed out a life of promise" in a Tremont Street phone store in July when he shot the store's young clerk in the stomach - after the clerk put his hands up - Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said today.
Elosko Brown, 27, was ordered held without bail at his arraignment in Roxbury District Court. The DA's office provided the following account of the last moments of the life of Joseph Morante, a 19-year-old who had just graduated college and gotten engaged:
By adamg - 11/17/13 - 6:36 pm
MONDAY UPDATE: Brown ordered held without bail, DA's office reports.
Boston Police report arresting Elosko Brown, 27, on charges he murdered a young clerk inside a phone store this past July.
Joseph Morante was just 19, a recent high-school graduate who was engaged to be married, when he died after being shot on the job on July 31.
By adamg - 11/16/13 - 5:21 pm
Firefighters are at 100 Seaver St.,, where a fire broke between the third and fourth floors shortly after 5 p.m.
Update: Second alarm struck at 5:23 p.m. The Red Cross reports 25 people were displaced.
By adamg - 11/15/13 - 8:09 pm
Police are combing the area around 58 Annunciation Rd., where witnesses reported shots from a passing green mini-van around 7:45 p.m.
In addition to the mini-van, police are looking for a man seeing fleeing the scene on foot - and a possible victim of the shooting.
By adamg - 11/13/13 - 1:50 pm
Boston Police report they are investigating how a toddler girl wound up at 1833 Washington St. yesterday afternoon with injuries that would claim her life.
Police say she was found unresponsive around 4:40 p.m. and was declared dead at Boston Medical Center. The Globe reports authorities do not consider her death "suspicious."
By adamg - 11/9/13 - 11:47 pm
The Boston Fire Department reports a fire that started around 6 p.m. at 127 Cedar St. did an estimated $75,000 in damage.
No injuries were reported.
By adamg - 11/5/13 - 3:15 pm
Kim Janey got off the 28 bus in Roxbury this afternoon to see this green man just standing there.
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